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While I have no experience playing 3D on the PI, assuming it can play standard 720p or 1080p correctly then it should have no issue with HSBS. Just select the correct 3d mode on your TV and voila, 3D. Now if you try playing FSBS, may FSM have mercy on your video card's sauce.
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3D HSBS in 1080p played fine on the Pi (watched Life of Pi and The Hobbit, tested a few other movies and they seemed to play back fine)
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moron posted:There's the Hardkernel boards which, whilst not being anywhere close to top end x86 performance, have four cores and some extra RAM to play with, giving you performance in the region of that found in a decent Android smartphone. My Rhythmic Crotch posted:There is an updated Beaglebone in the works, which I am pretty excited for. Pre-order info here.
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burndtjamb posted:3D HSBS in 1080p played fine on the Pi (watched Life of Pi and The Hobbit, tested a few other movies and they seemed to play back fine) Awesome, thanks. Now I just have to wait for the TV to actually arrive!
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I'm considering one of these to run Raspbmc or OpenELEC in my bedroom and had a couple questions. - Is there a recommended 802.11n adapter that people have used? I realize wifi sucks. I'm not running cable in my apartment. - Is Adafruit a decent site to order stuff from? I've seen their 5V 1A PSU suggested and they also have a cheap price on VESA mount cases. - How tough is flipping a unit if it doesn't work for what I need? WeaselWeaz fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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WeaselWeaz posted:I'm considering one of these to run Raspbmc or OpenELEC in my bedroom and had a couple questions. Adafruit is a great hobbyist electronics store with fast shipping. Newark would be cheaper, but I got my pi from them and was very happy. Not sure about the other questions.
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I'm running my Pi as a basic router at the moment. I've got: bind9, dhcp3-server, openssh-server, and webmin currently installed. I'm still fiddling around with IPtables though. Managed to get a top transfer speed of 12MB/s from one PC to another over SFTP. Anybody else doing anything similar?
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WeaselWeaz posted:- Is there a recommended 802.11n adapter that people have used? I realize wifi sucks. I'm not running cable in my apartment. Powered through your usb-hub (or the power adapter that comes in the box), tiny tp-cable and an existing wifi-network is all you need. Takes ~15 seconds for it to power up and connect to the network when the power comes on. I've never tried it with a pi though, but it should be pretty stable.
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Grab Meatcastle posted:Awesome, thanks. Now I just have to wait for the TV to actually arrive! Same for me, no problems with high quality movies, everything is fine. My only problem is that I need to reboot the raspberry after 1day or two to free some memory, but except that it's awesome 
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WeaselWeaz posted:I'm considering one of these to run Raspbmc or OpenELEC in my bedroom and had a couple questions. This is a well supported, inexpensive adapter (with Prime shipping): http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-Wireless-Adapter-Wizard/dp/B003MTTJOY/ It's teeny-tiny, fast and is low power enough to plug right into the Pi without a powered hub! Adafruit is a great hobbyist site; they are somewhat more expensive than other sites, however, Lady Ada (and her staff) give a lot back to the community in terms of open source software and hardware, so I consider the extra cost as a donation so they can give us cool things. Flipping a unit isn't tough at all. You'll get $45~ on eBay. But, if you run into a problem, ask for help here or the official forums before you give up and sell it.
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HATE TROLL TIM posted:This is a well supported, inexpensive adapter (with Prime shipping): http://www.amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un-Wireless-Adapter-Wizard/dp/B003MTTJOY/ Thanks for the info. The main concern is that I will not have a good enough wifi signal to stream from my desktop. It sounds like Amazon Video can also be hit or miss, in which case it may not be worth keeping. Regardless, if I flip it I'll list it in SA-Mart first.
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Incase anyone else is interested, the updated Beaglebones just became "available" from Newark. They're $45 a pop and should be much more powerful than the Pi (although who knows if a community will spring up to do an XBMC release or whatever). Ship date looks to be May 13th, so hopefully I won't be in for too wild of a ride to get mine.
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Maybe I am missing something, but it doesn't look like you can "Register your interest" yet if you live in the USA.
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WeaselWeaz posted:Thanks for the info. The main concern is that I will not have a good enough wifi signal to stream from my desktop. It sounds like Amazon Video can also be hit or miss, in which case it may not be worth keeping. Regardless, if I flip it I'll list it in SA-Mart first. I'm really considering giving up on this thing now and just buying a Roku or an Apple TV. I mostly just stream videos nowadays anyway.
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armorer posted:Maybe I am missing something, but it doesn't look like you can "Register your interest" yet if you live in the USA.
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:Incase anyone else is interested, the updated Beaglebones just became "available" from Newark. They're $45 a pop and should be much more powerful than the Pi (although who knows if a community will spring up to do an XBMC release or whatever). Ship date looks to be May 13th, so hopefully I won't be in for too wild of a ride to get mine. drat, and I just spent my monthly budget for Electronics on an Xprotolab and a bunch of other parts from Sparkfun. $45 seems like a great deal and is sure to put pressure on the pcDuino people to lower their price.
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It seems more physical computing friendly than the pi, too, given it has hardware pwm. Eliminate an arduino from your project and it saves money.
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Yeah, I am mainly interested in using it as a platform for screwing around with some random hardware controlled through python scripts. I looked at the pcDuino but it just looked a little goofy. So I'm hoping this platform will really catch on.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Amazon video is currently not working on Raspberry Pis (and maybe XBMC in general) due to amazon loving with their Flash DRM. It stopped working about a week ago. Saw that today. Sucks, but at the end of the day I care more about having XBMC than playing Amazon. Although if X-Box 360s drop to $99 it really would make me consider a second 360 instead.
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WeaselWeaz posted:I'm considering one of these to run Raspbmc or OpenELEC in my bedroom and had a couple questions. If you want wireless don't get a RPI get an android stick/xmbc device. RPI XBMC is a little tricky to setup imagine having to add a ton of work to get a wireless/adapter added just for XBMC is too much work. I'm using a RPI for XBMC and wish I'd just gotten a real device. The RPI B costs around 50 by the time you're done. Why are you thinking about flipping a $50 device, but probably not too hard. PIOS is an official XBMC target with WIFI costs around $110 http://www.amazon.com/Companion-802-11n-Ethernet-Official-Sponsor/dp/B0088IGPM8
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:Incase anyone else is interested, the updated Beaglebones just became "available" from Newark. They're $45 a pop and should be much more powerful than the Pi (although who knows if a community will spring up to do an XBMC release or whatever). Ship date looks to be May 13th, so hopefully I won't be in for too wild of a ride to get mine. This one even has a micro HDMI connector, so no more paying extra (and giving up a bunch of GPIO pins) for video output.
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Cockmaster posted:This one even has a micro HDMI connector, so no more paying extra (and giving up a bunch of GPIO pins) for video output. I saw this thing come out and immediately impulse purchased it. Possibly partly because of my weakness for beagles.
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Yeah there is definitly better solution but it's still a good solution to buy a raspberry pi, for 40$ you have a complete solution. Evene if its broke you can replace it easily.
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This may be old news, but I just got an e-mail from Newark element14 (where I bought my RPi) about the new RPi camera board. Any thoughts about this thing? http://downloads.element14.com/raspberry-pi-camera/
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My interest in that ends at price for what is realistically do with it. You can get a $10 webcam that works well enough.
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TVarmy posted:My interest in that ends at price for what is realistically do with it. Actually, it doesn't. Running a USB webcam at a high framerate takes up a good deal of CPU time and bus bandwidth. The camera add-on hooks into the CSI interface, which means it works at the silicon level, since the SOC (like most hardware designed for use in a smartphone) has an Image Signal Processor to capture and decode image data, it'll be really loving fast. And it won't eat up 50% of your CPU time. Or slow down DMA access. It'll also require much less power than a USB webcam while simultaneously giving you a better image quality (potentially RAW, compared to 50~60% compressed JPEGs from a  webcam).This is going to be a huge boost for running OpenCV at any sort of reasonable performance. On top of all that, last I heard it wasn't going to be over $20...
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HATE TROLL TIM posted:Actually, it doesn't. Running a USB webcam at a high framerate takes up a good deal of CPU time and bus bandwidth. The camera add-on hooks into the CSI interface, which means it works at the silicon level, since the SOC (like most hardware designed for use in a smartphone) has an Image Signal Processor to capture and decode image data, it'll be really loving fast. And it won't eat up 50% of your CPU time. Or slow down DMA access. It'll also require much less power than a USB webcam while simultaneously giving you a better image quality (potentially RAW, compared to 50~60% compressed JPEGs from a What will be the real applications of this camera ? Except in-house camera for security.
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Luminaz posted:What will be the real applications of this camera ? Except in-house camera for security. The guy you quoted mentioned OpenCV, which is probably what a lot of people have in mind.
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I've got my openelec pi hooked up through an AV reciever now and for some reason it seems to not be outputting over HDMI unless I reboot the device every time I switch the input on the reciever. Other devices hooked up are switching fine and I've tried swapping the inputs around to no effect. I could just connect the pi to the TV and rely on ARC for the sound through the reciever but that seems to stop it offloading DTS decoding and so HD movies end up stuttering along. Any ideas?
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DNova posted:The guy you quoted mentioned OpenCV, which is probably what a lot of people have in mind. Oh ok, missed it, sorry.
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Grab Meatcastle posted:I've got my openelec pi hooked up through an AV reciever now and for some reason it seems to not be outputting over HDMI unless I reboot the device every time I switch the input on the reciever. Other devices hooked up are switching fine and I've tried swapping the inputs around to no effect. What's happening is the Pi isn't detecting an HDMI display attached on startup, so it's defaulting to composite. What you need to do is edit /boot/config.txt and add the following line: code:Now, if you still wanted to hook the Pi up to the TV, you could try the following two lines which will force it to passthrough DTS/AC3, even if the TV reports it as not supported: code:Luminaz posted:What will be the real applications of this camera ? Except in-house camera for security. Even if you were to use it as a security camera, it's still not a bad price for what you get: $35 - Raspberry Pi $20 - Camera Module $10 - 802.11n Dongle $10 - Case + SD Card Total: $75 That's for a full featured, wireless IP camera mind you. Add another $15 for servos and you can give it full range of motion! Plus you've got GPIO access, so you could easily integrate it into a home automation or security system. I can think of one good use already, just for the basic $75 setup; let's say you've got a motorized driveway gate and a vehicle pulls up. OpenCV would detect the motion and automatically send a picture to your smartphone; you could have a microphone and speaker run to an intercom panel and talk to the visitor. Let's say they need to drop off a package; use a GPIO pin to trigger your automatic gate opener, have it hold the gate open until the camera detects the vehicle leaving, where it will automatically shut it. Yeah, I can think of a bunch of automation systems that could really benefit from turning a Pi into an inexpensive IP camera.
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HATE TROLL TIM posted:Even if you were to use it as a security camera, it's still not a bad price for what you get: Yeah true, I will think about it to put another security cam into my house, but now I need to found a special casemod for this !!  Thanks!
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I got shitfaced with my buddy last night, finally got around to turning his RP into a media server (the most basic of the stuff we've been talking about doing with it), and woke up in his guest room this morning to find a new e-mail notice on my phone. Newark will be sending me a RP shortly and I have no clue what the hell to do with it, I don't even remember how to program C or use linux very well. This should be fun!
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Are there any $3 chinese ebay cases or something out there? I can't find anything less than $10 shipped to Canada and that's just too much
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I am looking to create a robot using the Raspberry Pi and I want it to collect sound from underground waterpipes and since it is underground I cannot use any GPS or anything, do any of you guys have any idea how I can work around that? I suppose that I could just calculate it afterwards, but if the pipes leak, then there might be variations of the speed the flow has. So the best thing would be if there is some way of collecting the position even 1-dimensionally in meters from some referance point. Or do anyone have any suggestion?
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You mean the Pi will be in the pipe? Do you know the diametre of the pipe? Because you could measure the movement of wheels on opposite sides of the robot, bracing against the walls.
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If you assume that the robot will not slip, then you could do it just by working out how many wheel revolutions you have gone down the pipe. Failing that you could have some kind of semi rigid tether with some marker that the robot could count, for example a plastic rod with bumps on that could "click" a sensor attached to the robot (a bit like how surveyors wheels work),
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ante posted:Are there any $3 chinese ebay cases or something out there? I can't find anything less than $10 shipped to Canada and that's just too much
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ante posted:Are there any $3 chinese ebay cases or something out there? I can't find anything less than $10 shipped to Canada and that's just too much I really like the case SparkFun sells: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11623 I've been meaning to mention it since I got mine in last week. Not only is it one of the cheapest cases on the market, it's basically the only one I've found that provided open access to the 26-Pin GPIO header! By using one of Adafruit's passthrough headers, I was able to plug various boards in and have them fit on top of the case for easy access! 
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ante posted:Are there any $3 chinese ebay cases or something out there? I can't find anything less than $10 shipped to Canada and that's just too much The cardboard box it ships in makes a fine "case". Just cut/tear holes for what you need (hdmi) and leave the flaps open for power and Ethernet.
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